Saturday, February 18, 2012

"Tommy the robot steps beyond the confines of his metalic self and expresses the deepest emotion known to man: Love."

One day I was just bored and started doodling in Blender. After a few minutes I decided that this looked like a robot head, and so I started making Tommy with the goal of creating a header image to submit to BlenderNation.

Monday, September 12, 2011

So recently I ventured over to CGTalk and participated in one of their awesome Hardcore Modelling Challenges. This time it was a Pixar Tribute and I chose to model Wall-e and EVE.

(from what I wrote on CGTalk)

Out of all of Pixar's films, Wall-e has always stood out to me as being especially well made. Maybe it was the oddity of two robots falling in love with each other, maybe it was the superb modelling and shading, maybe the message contained in the film....but whatever it was, Wall-e has got to be one of the most amazing 3D characters ever created which is why I chose to model him for this HMC. Sadly, I wasn't able to complete the environment from the lightbulb scene near the beginning of the film, but at least EVE found her way into my render :D

I used Blender 2.59 for modelling and shading, Cycles for rendering, and Blender's internal compositor and GIMP for post production. The entire project took about 2 weeks worth of time.

----

Anyways, lots learned on this project and I'm again fired up for the next....whatever it may be o_O

Saturday, May 28, 2011

My first blend while running Blender on Elementary OS. After using Ubuntu for a while I decided to try out Elementary Jupiter seeing as it's based off of Ubuntu 10.10 and wouldn't be too big of a change. Elementary is basically a stripped down Ubuntu so Blender runs even faster than on Ubuntu! Yay!